Prevalence, Awareness, Treatment, and Control of Hypertension and Its Risk Factors in (Central) Vietnam

Table 3

Multivariate logistic regression analysis demonstrating the relationship between the prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension with several independent variables.

Risk factors	OR (95% CI)	value
Prevalence of hypertension
Gender (men versus women)	1.83 (1.37–2.44)	<0.001
Ethnicity (Kinh versus minority)	0.54 (0.40–0.73)	<0.001
Age group (per 10 years)	0.56 (0.47–0.67)	<0.001
BMI (overweight and obesity versus no)	1.82 (1.35–2.45)	<0.001
Abdominal obesity (yes versus no)	1.40 (1.03–1.91)	0.032
Diabetes (yes versus no)	2.18 (1.13–4.19)	0.019
Awareness of hypertension
Gender (men versus women)	0.47 (0.29–0.77)	0.003
Age group (per 10 years)	0.42 (0.31–0.57)	<0.001
Excessive alcohol consumption (yes versus no)	0.33 (0.16–0.72)	0.005
Treatment among aware hypertensive patients
Ethnicity (Kinh versus minority)	1.72 (0.95–3.12)	0.073
Age group (per 10 years)	0.62 (0.42–0.9)	0.013
Residence (urban versus rural)	2.6 (1.43–4.73)	0.002
Treatment among all hypertensive patients
Age group (per 10 years)	0.47 (0.34–0.65)	<0.001
Residence (urban versus rural)	2.26 (1.43–3.58)	<0.001
Excessive alcohol consumption (yes versus no)	0.34 (0.13–7.93)	0.034
Control among treated hypertension
Residence (urban versus rural)	2.14 (1.05–4.34)	0.035
Control among all hypertensive patients
Gender (men versus women)	0.41 (0.21–0.79)	0.008
Age group (per 10 years)	0.49 (0.28–0.81)	0.005
Residence (urban versus rural)	3.49 (1.88–6.47)	<0.001

CI: confidence interval, BMI: body mass index.